Massimiliano Cappellini (born 2 January 1971, in Bollate) is a retired Italian professional footballer who played as a forward.
[3] During 1990–91 season, he helped Piacenza win the league title and achieve promotion to Serie B, scoring 7 goals.
[4] He was then loaned out to Serie A side Atalanta in the second half of the following season, but failed to make a single appearance for the club due to competition from other forwards.
At the beginning of the 1998–99 season, he suffered a serious knee injury, which forced him to take on more of a second striker role; Empoli were relegated to Serie B.
In December 2010, he became the general manager of Spezia, a position which he held until 2011, when he returned to Empoli to become director of the club's youth sector.